Raise voting age to 18 years old

Raise voting age to 18 years old — 8 signatures. Status: rejected.

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Raise the voting age from 16 back to 18

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In my opinion (as a young person myself) 16 year olds are not mature enough to make decisions on this country’s future. The lowering of the voting age was clearly a desperate attempt by Labour to try and gain a few cheap votes in the next election and I do not believe that it was properly thought through.

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